Gender Wage Gap in the United States
Introduction
The previous century together with the current one has witnessed intensified calls for gender equality and calls for women empowerment. Most first-class countries are doing well in empowering women in different aspects of the society. However, women are still earning lower wages as compared to their male counterparts across all Western countries as asserted by (Kunze, 2017). This gender niche has been present for many years although it has witnessed some significant developments. In the United States, the issue of gender pay discrimination afflicts women of all races, educational backgrounds, and ages.
The issue has been very perennial in the United States due to the issues such as career clustering, women having to multitask between job obligations, and household chores and perhaps the birth penalty as it seems in this sphere …show more content…
This has been attributed to as the main cause of the gender wage gap in the country, totaling to a 49.3% of the total wage disparity (Kim, 2015). This also due to the fact that women tend to cluster in few job occupations which are mainly secretariat jobs, administrative assistants, school teachers and registered nurses as added by (Mishel, Bernstein & Schmitt, 2016). On the other hand, men have dominated the top twenty lucrative occupations in the US as managers, supervisor, and truck drivers among the others. In addition, there is a proposition that women could be earning the same as men if women were not settling for traditionally female-dominated jobs such as nursing. Female-dominated occupations traditionally pay less than the male ones with the same job description. Therefore, the 77% amount for every one dollar earned by men is influenced by the occupational segregation and the difference in wages between the two genders even in the same job
Introduction
The previous century together with the current one has witnessed intensified calls for gender equality and calls for women empowerment. Most first-class countries are doing well in empowering women in different aspects of the society. However, women are still earning lower wages as compared to their male counterparts across all Western countries as asserted by (Kunze, 2017). This gender niche has been present for many years although it has witnessed some significant developments. In the United States, the issue of gender pay discrimination afflicts women of all races, educational backgrounds, and ages.
The issue has been very perennial in the United States due to the issues such as career clustering, women having to multitask between job obligations, and household chores and perhaps the birth penalty as it seems in this sphere …show more content…
This has been attributed to as the main cause of the gender wage gap in the country, totaling to a 49.3% of the total wage disparity (Kim, 2015). This also due to the fact that women tend to cluster in few job occupations which are mainly secretariat jobs, administrative assistants, school teachers and registered nurses as added by (Mishel, Bernstein & Schmitt, 2016). On the other hand, men have dominated the top twenty lucrative occupations in the US as managers, supervisor, and truck drivers among the others. In addition, there is a proposition that women could be earning the same as men if women were not settling for traditionally female-dominated jobs such as nursing. Female-dominated occupations traditionally pay less than the male ones with the same job description. Therefore, the 77% amount for every one dollar earned by men is influenced by the occupational segregation and the difference in wages between the two genders even in the same job